Call for Recognition - Naturalizing Political Norms

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Situating Recognition 3. Pluralism and Social Recognition 4. A Critique of Modern Institutions 5. Towards a New Ethical Paradigm 6. Socio-Natural Embeddedness 7. Socio-cultural Norms in the Public Place 8. Towards a Naturalistic Paradigm of Norms 9. Conclusion: Lifeworld, Norms and Politics. References.

About the author

R. Krishnaswamy is Associate Professor and Co-Director for the Centre for Social and Political Research, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi in Philosophy. He has held a research fellowship at the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada. He has recently been a HESP/CEU post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (now in Vienna). His research interests criss-cross across various disciplines. He works on issues related to the philosophy of mind and language.

Summary

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity.

Product details

• Authors: R. Krishnaswamy, R. (Jindal Global University) Krishnaswamy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2023
• EAN: 9780367640569
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64056-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law